The majority has chosen to politicize this program and it is attempting to discredit clean energy the same way they have tried to do to climate science.

I want to commend our Subcommittee Members, Scott Tipton and Paul Gosar, who are spearheading the effort to clear away these bureaucratic obstacles.

It is my hope that today's hearing marks the death of a political movement, however. It is time finally for the 'stop the monuments movement' to end.

Fifteen Presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, rejected the movement and used the Antiquities Act to designate more than 100 national monuments.

It is time, finally, for the Stop the Monuments Movement to end.

A majority of this House is now on record rejecting the Stop the Monuments Movement--it is time for this Committee to reject this movement as well.

Forty-nine years ago in September of 1962, President Kennedy issued an urgent call to the Nation to be bold.

I thank the gentlelady. The Republican Party deficit plan is very simple: Number one, send the financial markets into a nose dive. Number two, drive up costs for home mortgages, student loans, and credit cards. Number three, spook…

The Republican Party's deficit plan is very simple: one, prolong the default crisis; two, push the Nation to the very brink of economic collapse; three, repeat it all again and again until election day 2012. The Republican Party cares only…

I reclaim my time to say that the 158-mile area is a portion of the inside of the park, of the 2.5 million-acre park. So it seems to me what the gentleman is suggesting is that he believes--and I understand--that the National Park Service…

I rise in support of the amendment. We understand that this is a huge 2.5 million-acre park and that what we're talking about here is a 158-mile-long river in the middle of this park, so we're talking about a huge area.